Over the next several years his drug use will worsen to the point where he will end up homeless.

By providing this background information, Duminuco, today the CEO of Langley-based construction company, “Infinite Expansion Corporation,” is explaining why, every two or three weeks, he will load up a van with food and other supplies and go looking for homeless people.

They put out bag lunches, clothes, shoes, blankets and other supplies, then fired up a generator to provide light.

Duminuco and another person had pooled some money to make it happen, and he had personally paid for a storage locker to accommodate the flood of donations that resulted when they started approaching local businesses for help.

“I’ve been in some pretty rough spots myself in life and people have helped me, and I remember what that’s like,” Duminuco said at the time, without going into detail.

Now, Duminuco is telling his story, explaining why he does what he does.

It’s because he’s been there, right where the people lining up for sandwiches and clean socks in Douglas park were, he says.

“I’ve been hungry. I’ve had nowhere to go.”

The young man posing with the expensive car in the photo had a good life growing up in Langley until he started experimenting with drugs.

Then, he went from being a good student, to a drop-out, to a drug user and trafficker, Duminuco says.

“I went from from coke, to crack, to crystal meth to heroin,” he says.

“It consumed my life. I ended up homeless.”

The drugs drove a wedge between Duminuco and his family.

“I put them through hell.”

Duminuco has three convictions for drug trafficking.

His last stay in prison was when things began to change for the better, he says.

Duminuco cleaned up, started studying and when he got out of prison in March 2016, he had a job the very next day.

“I started out hammering nails.” he says.

“I went to work. I created structure.”

For about 10 months, things seemed to be going well.

And then, he nearly died.

After about 10 months of sobriety, Duminuco went on a two-week bender that ended with a fentanyl overdose.

“I was sober and I relapsed,” he says.

“I was not breathing.”

He was lucky. The paramedics arrived in time with an injection that brought him back.

After that, he says, the trips to help the needy became even more important — a way of reaching out to others struggling like he used to.

Some of the people Duminuco sees when he’s distributing food and clothing and other essentials are friends he knows from the old days.

“There’s guys I went to high school with, they’re picking up bottles.”

These days, Duminuco is focussed on building his businesses, including further expanding his online and social media presence (he has started an online shopping business called Tinods.com that donates 80 per cent of net profits to the community), furthering his education and working out as often as his busy schedule allows.